Who knows the local customs of Putian people and their changes?

Turning over the history, we can clearly understand, Putian is by the Min - & gt; Min Yue - & gt; Han this historical process over, which determines her folk culture colorful, not only inherited and carried forward the ancient Min, Min Yue heritage, but also the acceptance of the integration of a large number of foreign folk habits, especially into the Han nationality this family, it will make it into the literature of the famous state, the state of etiquette of the forest becomes possible. Famous state, the forest of the state of etiquette has become possible. Therefore, from the Xinghua folklore as a whole, both with the Han Chinese consistent folklore, but also has a unique customary etiquette, has a distinctive regional characteristics. Festivals and customs Spring Festival Spring Festival is the biggest folk festival in Xinghua, most of the loved ones in foreign lands to return home to reunite with their families, *** to enjoy the joy of heaven, the Spring Festival activities for five days, commonly known as the "five days of age". The custom is: New Year's Eve, after midnight, home firecrackers, called "open positive". On the morning of the first day of the New Year, every family sacrifices to their ancestors with thread noodles and "blessed rice" (dried rice); after the sacrifice, thread noodles are cooked, and each person has a bowl of them, which signifies "long and blessed life". When you eat noodles, you don't drink noodle soup at the first bite, and as the saying goes, "If you drink noodle soup on the first day of the year, your clothes won't dry up when you go out in the rain". After eating noodles, neighbors, relatives and friends to pay tribute to each other, the host to red oranges, melon seeds, candy, "birthday noodles" pay guests. On this day, people have to the town, or to the mountain villages to visit the attractions, called the spring tour. The second day, is a taboo day, people do not dare to visit each other. This custom originated in Ming Jiajing forty-one years (1562 AD) November 29, Japanese invasion of the city, Putu people were killed by many, to the first day of the first month of the thief began to retreat, fleeing people returned home to collect the coffin suffered relatives and friends, strings of people are mourning, therefore, this day has become an inauspicious day, the taboo on the exchange. However, where the first day to the past, do not commit this taboo. The third day, because the first two days of the first and second days closed the well door does not take water, the third morning before the gods open the well door to draw water. Open store businessmen in this morning also fired a gun to open the door for business. Newly married women accompanied by the groom on this day, return to the bride's home to pay homage to their parents. In Xianyou, this day is also the day of "do ten", wishing friends and relatives an endless stream of birthday. Wish life gifts are generally wired noodles, eggs, gun candle (female "do ten" to add pollen), fabrics, shoes, hats, in the hall, etc., the number of how much there is a certain amount of care. On the evening of the fourth day of the lunar calendar, the "big year" is celebrated. This custom originated from the Japanese invasion of Xinghua, the people fled, not at home in the "year", the first day of the following year to return home, the collection of friends and relatives killed in the burial, on the fourth to make up for the "New Year's Eve", commonly known as doing "big year! The following year, after returning home on the first day of the following year to collect and bury their murdered relatives and friends, they made up for the "New Year's Eve" on the fourth day of the month, commonly known as the "Great Year". In Xianyou, it is the fifth day of the year to do the "big year". The first five as the first day, a bowl of noodles for breakfast, and then go to the spring or visit friends and relatives. The fifteenth day of the first month, the ancient name of the festival, commonly known as the Lantern Festival, is also the end of the ancient folk community drums (community drums since December 16th). The Lantern Festival is a major festival in Putian, more than the Spring Festival, and the continuation of the time is quite long (the reason is that the time of each village is different, the earliest of the first eight, the latest first month 29 days). Before liberation, the night of the Lantern Festival, the village of the Palace Society lights and colors, set up a "banquet table", stacked cakes and fruit, the villagers lift the Bodhisattva idol line Nuo. Line Nuo team around the border for a week, home<div id=main6> case, when the team passes, burning candles and incense, firecrackers, burning firewood, chemical "tribute to silver", praying for peace throughout the year, commonly known as "pick up the line of exorcism". After receiving the line Nuo, housewives take home the ashes poured into the stove, said the next year more red-hot. Is the night, swimming lights, "swinging brown sedan chair" (jump Nuo fire), dragon and lion dance, until dawn. Some villages also "do shed" (several classes of theater together to perform large-scale historical drama). There are individual villages over the Lantern Festival in a very special way, such as the suburban township of Chenggong District, Guangfu Tsai village of the festival is the way in the first month of the thirteenth day of the morning from five to six o'clock, the family will be cooking pots, take out of the inverted buckle in the yard, "rake" a few times, that is, counted as a festival. The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "February 2", also known as "head tooth". Because the second day of the month, sixteen two days, the owners of the industry in the evening to sacrifice God Furyu, invited friends to get together for dinner, called the tooth festival, this case from the beginning of February 2, December 16 end, so the name. This is the night, the owners of the industry specifically for the "first blessing" to invite shopkeepers, friends get-together, not invited, it means that the "dismissal". In Xianyou, this day is the opening day of Mengkuan (private school). On this day, parents clean up their children, put on a basket of fried rice flowers (commonly known as "ice mold"), fried sugar beans. Seven green onions on the basket, eight cloth buttons, symbolizing the child "seven smart eight", "smart flowers bloomed". The students go to the Monk's Hall to pay homage to Mr. Confucius, and are officially enrolled in school. Qingming Festival Before the festival, people steamed "Qingming Turtle" with flour. On the day of the festival, people prepare wine, food, fruits, "Qingming Turtle" and other offerings to the mountains to sweep the graves, expressing their condolences to their deceased relatives. Dragon Boat Festival This is one of the eight traditional festivals in Xinghua, which is very grand, not only long, but also has many contents. Usually the first day of eating cakes, the second day of eating dumplings, the third day of eating screws, the fourth day of eating peaches, as well as plugging Ai, the fifth rowing dragon boat, so there is a proverb, "the first cake, the second dumplings, the third screws, the fourth peaches, the first five rowing dragon boat". The first five days, families pick several kinds of aromatic grass, draw water at noon, fried noon grass soup, everyone bathed and dressed, change winter clothes for summer clothes. Children after the bath hanging scented sachets and cloth Zha Xiaohu, in the navel and other places coated with xionghuang, eat "noon grass" boiled eggs, said the body can be strong to get rid of diseases. The so-called midday grass is the first five midday is picked grass, in fact, more than in the midday before the picking, they have iron mango Kei, pomegranate leaves, bean leaves, orchids and other seven or eight kinds of plants, boiled out of the egg was clear yellow. Cleaning the hall spraying Xionghuang water, charcoal fire with Cangzhu, orange peel smothered smoke, to drive away mosquitoes and insects, is also a major part of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the most lively and interesting is the dragon boat race. <div> the seventh day of the seventh month fried sugar beans, popcorn, the meaning is "eat fried beans, live old old". In the evening, people flocked to Chengtou to watch the heavenly Cowherd and Weaving Maiden meet. People seldom see magpies on this day, saying that they go up to the sky to build magpie bridges. Sometimes a little rain falls at night, which is said to be the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden when they meet. Zhongyuan Festival The 15th day of the 7th month, commonly known as the "half of the 7th month", also known as Zhongyuan Festival, is an old folk festival to worship ancestors. Folk cook "mint cake" and "golden rice fruit" and burn silver paper clothes to honor their ancestors. Married women, in case of new death of parents, on the thirteenth day to prepare offerings, silver paper, back to the mother's home to offer sacrifices, commonly known as sending "the first year of paper", and then every year on the fourteenth day of the "send paper". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this custom is gradually abolished. August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival, family and friends give each other moon cakes, chestnuts, white fruit and other gifts, called "send autumn". In the evening, families get together and eat fried rice noodles, taro, chestnuts and mooncakes, which have been passed down to the present day. The 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th month of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month is commonly known as "Nine Layers of Rice Fruit". Folk people steam nine layers of rice fruits. Winter Solstice Festival The Winter Solstice Festival is commonly known as the Winter Festival. The night before the festival, families "rub round", insert the spring, pinch the weight of silver ingots, etc.; wishing the family reunion, a good harvest, six animals thrive. Winter Festival morning, the whole family ate "brown sugar pills", and the "pills" paste pasted on the door frame, wishing for food surplus in the coming year. In the plains, if the family has a new funeral, not pounded glutinous rice flour, said the funeral is not interested in festivals, his relatives should be sent before the festival glutinous rice flour to him, the master back to ginger, white rice curls, malt cake, chopsticks, brown sugar and grains, etc., said to the feeder to see the white is not taboo, I wish him to add to his wealth. The winter solstice also has the custom of sweeping graves. New Year's Eve New Year's Eve on the lunar calendar is the grandest festival of the year, and all those who go out have to return home for a reunion. Putian people call New Year's Eve "do year", as the name implies, is in this year and year of transition, to celebrate the past year's year of abundance of life, wishing the new year all the best, so the Spring Festival is generally from the "tail tooth" that is, the lunar calendar, December 16, the beginning of the festival. On the day of the "last tooth", the owners of the old time feasted their employees, paid off their wages and ended their employment contracts for the year. The people's families were busy buying new clothes and goods for the year. Afterwards, a sunny day was chosen for cleaning, commonly known as "dust sweeping". On the twenty-third day, each family prepared rituals to "send the gods", using flour, etc. to make "send the gods cake", fried "fried rice fruit" to send Zao Gong "to heaven! " "Reporting" (to the fourth day of the first month of the day and will "welcome them back to earth" called "receiving God"). After sending the stove, people will choose two days to hang the New Year's paintings, do red rice balls, paste spring couplets and so on. Putian's Spring Festival couplets have a very unique place, that is, the upper end of a two-inch long section of white head, which is the only one in the country. Legend has it that after the Qing soldiers entered the country, the implementation of high-pressure policy, the people rose up against the formation of Putian South Shaolin Temple as the base camp of the national anti-Qing situation, the Qing court anger at the people, indiscriminate killing of innocents, many people because of the funeral sticker white couplets. At the time of the Spring Festival, the Qing court and forced the people to post red couplets, to decorate the "national prosperity and people's peace", some people are forced to post red couplets, deliberately leave a cut white couplets to show that the heart of the remaining grief. Subsequently, each family followed suit, and then into the custom of white Spring Festival couplets, until today. On New Year's Eve, families prepare red rice balls and red mandarin oranges to offer to the gods to celebrate the New Year. In the evening, red candles are burned in the hall, and the whole family eats New Year's Eve dinner together, commonly known as "around the stove". If there are people who have not returned home, there should be an empty seat at the dinner table. Afterwards, the stove should be left on the "Lunar New Year's Eve rice", the stove with a large piece of firewood burned all night "fire treasure", symbolizing that every year has more than enough years of prosperity. Then the elders give the younger generation "New Year's money", children burning firecrackers, family laughter, chatting and entertainment, commonly known as the "old age". To do the year, Putian also has a few special customs, that is, the New Year's Eve dinner can not have fish (now no taboo), the New Year's paintings can not appear in the lotus, the first two days of the first two days of the first day, do not use the well, the water should be stored beforehand, do not dump the garbage and so on. Before the liberation, New Year's Eve was the last time limit for the poor to pay off their debts, and those who were in debt did not dare to spend the New Year at home. City God Temple on this day day and night performances, indebted people go to the theater to avoid debt, the debtor will not dare to collect debts in front of the City God.